The $3 billion Cash for Clunkers program will shut down on Monday, the government said Thursday. Officials decided to wind down the program, which Congress passed to spur flagging auto sales, after determining that it would soon run out of money.

The program proved wildly popular, running through its initial $1 billion in its first week and leading lawmakers to approve an additional $2 billion in funding on Aug. 7.

So why are we ending it - is this another Democratic surrender?

The right-wing liars have been screaming about the cost of this program which may end up saving Detroit, but it also saved tens of thousands of jobs in the car industry as well as in glass plants, electronics, the tire and rubber industry, leather seats, plastics and steel, XM-Sirius Satellite Radio - the list goes on and on.

So it's a little expensive, but we should ask, "Compared to what?"

Bush gave Colgate $300M and who did they hire? Nobody!

Bush gave his crooked Enron friends $772M and who did they hire? Nobody!

Bush gave Ford $5.5 billion and who did they hire? Nobody!

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Bush gave those corporate robbers $25.5 billion and who did they hire? Nobody!

But when Obama gives a half a million families new, fuel-efficient cars while saving tens of thousands of jobs for $2 billion the right-wing loons go crazy and make the president out to be some crazy, big spender.

Why won't somebody list the damn facts?

Plus, I don't know - did Bush give them that much every year he was in office?

Indeed...why is the program ending? Was this a "limited time offer?" that has run out of its allotted time? If it's doing good for the economy, why stop it, even if there was an embedded time limit within the bill itself? With 59 Senate votes, seems to me time limits can be extended. It seems to me also that the Dems in Congress really should be showing a hell of a lot more toughness than they've shown so far, and not just about this. If they don't it's going to be ugly, and all of the "hope" that we thought would bring RESULTS will have been lost.

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Great Posts Here..Are we going to have a boost to the appliance industry soon. I think it is on the slate for Sept or October where you get an energy conserving appliance rebate. I need a large Obama dryer to dry the clothes my George Bush Rebate washer has cleaned up. I think about 800. like the Bush rebate will do. Got any info on that ? I saw it on the nightly news.

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